I wanted to give a little shout out to FreshBooks today. For those of you who are not familiar, FreshBooks is a fantastic online billing/accounting application that enables you to easily track revenue, projects, billing and staff timesheets. The team at FreshBooks is always making upgrades and improvements to the system that just pop up as a wonderful surprise. They offer an iPhone app that allows you to track and book time to projects through your phone which is handy for client meetings and work sessions.
I used to use QuickBooks and was always frustrated that there was way more functionality than I needed making the entire process overwhelming. FreshBooks does a great job making the boring, often painful, job of billing easy. I recently passed on the billing duties to my assistant and she picked up on the process in no time. And, because it’s online, she can login from wherever she might be.
The system integrates seamlessly with PayPal so my clients can easily pay their bills online. As a bonus, FreshBooks integrates with my MailChimp account so it’s easy to import my client contacts into my newsletter list. There are a bunch of other add-ons for other cool applications.
Oh, and did I mention that all of this is cheap? I pay $14/month for unlimited access and plenty of room for my client list.
I need to do what I can to ensure that my time is spent working on growing my business; not doing administrative work. FreshBooks makes it easy to do an unexciting task with ease and accuracy. Kudos, FreshBooks!
